New Sites – January 2010

Explore a broad range of handicapped-friendly travel opportunities and discover special cruises, tours and discounts. Learn how to plan your trip properly and what questions to ask before you set out on your journey. Make I-Can-Travel.com your “how-to” site and your first port of call before any destination so you can travel with confidence and [...]

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Accessible Widgets

I learned something new about WordPress today, thanks to the awesome Reagan Lynch. I had asked him for some information about accessibility a couple weeks ago and he kindly asked if the information he had sent had helped. It had, and somehow our conversation wound around to widgets. That’s when he asked me if I [...]

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Look Mom! No Hands Plugins! Video Embedding Is Super Simple Now.

Once again, WordPress rocks my world…this time in the arena of embedding video in posts and pages. With the advent of 2.9, we can now embed video from: YouTube Vimeo DailyMotion blip.tv Flickr (both videos and images) Viddler Hulu Qik Revision3 Scribd Photobucket PollDaddy Google Video WordPress.tv (only VideoPress-type videos for the time being) So, [...]

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Edit Your Images in WordPress 2.9

WordPress released version 2.9 last week, and one of the best new features it offers is the ability to edit uploaded images! You can upload your image, click the ‘edit image’ button and crop, resize (scale), flip horizontally and vertically, and rotate your images and undo or redo your edits. Now, if that’s not incentive [...]

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What Are Categories and Tags and How Are They Used?

Categories are the broad topic divisions of your content, and tags are the more granular, specific topics you write about. Both are used to help make your content more accessible and your navigation easier, and both apply only to posts (not pages.) While you can add both categories and tags on the fly, it’s a [...]

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